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Cokie Roberts on Nantucket
Cokie Roberts on Nantucket
WNAN brought Cokie Roberts to the island to share brunch with listeners of the station at Straight Wharf Restuarant on Friday, August 8. Cokie greeted each and every person who attended. Cokie is Contributing Senior News Analyst for NPR and ABC News Political Commentator, regularly heard on NPR’s Morning Edition heard here on 91.1 fm. [...]
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Who's elitist?
Rising Hegemon — Cokie Roberts calls going to Hawaii (i.e. America's Middle Income Paradise) "exotic" even though most of Obama's significant non-nuclear family lives there. Where was Cokie while Obama vacationed? Nan-fuckin'-tucket! Nantucket, one of America's wealthiest enclaves -- like the Hamptons with less horse-shit. But apparently no lack of bullshit. There was an ol' bitty on Nantucket Whose Journalism came with a bucket She could afford lobster roll By always playing concern troll And now my scorn she can suck it.

Limericks of the Damned
Firedoglake — Cokie Roberts called going to Hawaii (i.e. America's Middle Income Paradise) "exotic" even though most of Obama's significant non-nuclear family lives there. Implying some sort of upper crust elitism the average American cannot understand. Where was Cokie while Obama was in our 50th state? Nan-freakin'-tucket! Yes, Nantucket, one of America's wealthiest enclaves -- it's like the Hamptons with less horsecrap. But apparently no lack of bullcrap. And it also requires, nay, DEMANDS another thoroughly American tradition be ...

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